I bought a virtually brand new Explorer 9/21-watt on Ebay quite cheap. I had to replace two of the cells in the battery as it wasn't giving the full four hour burn time, but was able to do it myself with the soldering iron and some shrink wrap. I bought it as a backup to my 13.5/21-watt Salvo, which has been faultless.

I think, if you know what you are buying then it is fine to buy second hand. Anything like regs, I just buy new and cycle them every 3 years.

Haven't used it yet, but John Currie seems to think it breathed fine stock standard.

I've ordered a Golem Shrimp for mine and will fit it with Cooper 22-inch hoses. Switchblock is pretty average also and I'm sourcing another one from europe.

All in all, it will end up costing around $3.5k plus a few hoses, a set of twins and another manifold isolator.

Found an X-Link hardwired, so will plumb that in to monitor the PPo2.

Halcyon have seriously lost it by the look of things, silliest thing I've seen for ages - especially the pink cammo on the wing.

Where do you find this shit Ph? Might be time for you to trade in the old transpac - c'mon, get into it - live a little.

I bought it out of the blue as a thing to help me learn a little more about rebreathers. I just can't justify the cost of the RB80 at this stage as I don't really need one. I have twin 18's which I can do any dive with and about 10 stages.

I think in the next couple of years, the GUE lads will have something else anyway, so no point working up to something that may change. The RB80 is a good workhorse for those type of dives in the WKPP etc, but I'll never get to do those type of dives, so I may as well buy something cheaper and learn on that.

In time, no doubt, I'll go fully closed.  The JJ-CCR looks nice but I just don't know enough about RB's yet to buy one - oh an expensive one.

The X-Link has been discontinued, but I should be able to find one around somewhere.

I would catch a lift with Harvs but he has to go there first.  

PH, you are funny. DT is diving tactics of course, but you knew that.

Don't know about the Predator.

It cost me $2k landed, training with JDZ through IART and I don't know what it is like to breathe yet, I haven't got any kitty litter as it only arrived yesterday.

JC

It shouldn't come as too much of a surprise JD, it was you who put me on to them via this very forum. Matched with the Liquidvision X-Link, I should be able to monitor the PPO2 very easily. The BOV is a bit average, but functional. All in all it is very good value for a simple device that will be a good introduction into rebreathers for me. If I have to spend a few dollars on a few improvements, at that price it is still bloody cheap.

Geez PH, we may even be dive buddies after all if you get one. Oh, but it would pay to take your own car over to the Mount